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Platoon advantage. Probably smart to treat McAdoo as a multi position platoon guy at the start, ease him in by putting him in situations to succeed. Also provides us with a good pinch hitting option for later in the game.

He's been pretty mid though, I feel like just saying his ERA has been serviceable underscores how relatively unimpressive he's been. Like I said though, good for him for turning his career around.

Using his RA9-WAR is a weird way of avoiding showing that he's outperforming all the non raw ERA metrics like FIP, xFIP, and even xERA. He's been a 1 fWAR pitcher over 120 innings, good for him for saving his career but not exactly looking like the rest of the league missed out on a steal of a contract or anything. Feels like he would be better suited as a multi inning reliever where his fastball can play up more, and he can be mostly fastball/slider with the changeup keeping RHH off balance.

I feel like where Miles is on his IP, considering his injury history, he's probably a high leverage 1-2 IP reliever at this point, to account for Hoffman being moved.

Not sure what about my post made it seem like I was attacking you. Robert cannot stay healthy and his performance has sucked. Barring an insane, earth shattering, September, there's no chance the Mets or any other team are taking up his $20M option. The Mets were buying on a potential bounceback that didn't happen, the same flaws were present this season and the upside didn't materialize. He's gonne be a free agent in the upcoming offseason.

You have to wonder if the Mets will pick up the option of a guy who has been replacement level in two out of the last 3 seasons, with an 84 wRC+ for the duration of that time?

Fernando Tatis Jr., who (in)famously started off the season with a severe power drought, not hitting his first homerun until May 30th, is now close to doubling Guerrero's season total, with 7 homeruns in the last month alone. wRC+ up to 116, 2.9 WAR.

I’d say his true talent right now is around 120 wRC+, despite the slower start. Factor in one more offseason at his age and it’s more likely he’s in the 105-115 range next season realistically. He probably can be a very good contributor against lefties still, but there’s some mileage on those legs and entering the season at 37 it’s more likely than not that it starts to catch up. I’d maybe optimistically say 120 wRC+ next season is more like 20% likely.

If the command was that big of a concern to them then he wouldn't be promoted; I think it's that simple honestly. The Yankees for example were pretty slow in moving Spencer Jones, so it's all about them showing that they're ready for the next developmental step. High walk rate guys can make it work, and if the stuff is good enough then teams can still treat them as legit prospects and promote accordingly. Robbie Ray, Dylan Cease come to mind as guys who have succeeded despite high walk rates in the minors and majors. Obviously I'm sure they still think King can iron out some of these walks into a more manageable rate. King just having turned 20 makes me think the walks aren't particularly concerning just yet, it might be a different story if he was a college guy who was supposed to be more polished. He's gonna be in AA at a younger age than the best college pitchers in next year's draft become professionals.

What on earth are you taking about bro. I don’t know how you watch Gimenez on a daily basis and not recognize someone who is downright impressive. You might be getting a bit of an anti Jeter effect, where Gimenez makes it look so easy that it seems like he’s not elite. He makes plays that the average SS, or someone like Bichette, can’t even get to, look routine. Because he has elite defensive instincts and footwork.

He’s 99th percentile range in SS defense…what. Gimenez is literally as good as they come, maybe save for literally only Bobby Witt Jr. Taylor Walls has negative OAA lol.

Peterson threw over to first twice, to no avail. He then attempted a third pickoff throw and still didn't get Springer, which by the new disengagement rules is an automatic balk. Springer and Okamoto both awarded a base.

David Peterson is an idiot

Just saw this and needed to repost it because of how disgusting it made me feel. Myles Straw in the most recent Houston series (3 games): 4 XBH Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the month of May: 3 XBH Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the month of June: 4 XBH

I don't think he's making the claim that Bateman is 100% a finished product and there's zero chance he can improve or stay the same to be a viable MLB player. I'm sure the Blue Jays view every prospect they acquire as the possibility to unlock a guy to perform at their best possible level. Statistically though, it's way more likely that Bateman is who he is, and he's not making some Jose Bautista esque journeyman to HOF transition. Not to mention, once again, there's things in his profile that prevent him from making changes like that, or if those changes would even result in improved performance. It's entirely possible Bateman has found his relative lack of success to this point by being the type of hitter that he currently is: patient, contact first approach, not putting the ball in the air too often where he doesn't have the strength to make it do damage, and putting most of his energy into being a good defender and runner. Maybe you tell him to change his swing or approach and now he's 2026 Myles Straw with an improved barrel rate and ISO, but getting on base far less and a lot of his batted balls in the air going for easy outs. Who knows if he even has the talent to make such changes. Hell, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. with all the hitting talent in the world can't turn around from a season long slump. What makes you think Brett Bateman and his 2nd percentile Max EV, 15th percentile 90% EV in AAA, can even do this?